tờ mây

Vietnamese

Etymology

tờ (sheet) +‎ mây (cloud).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [təː˨˩ məj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [təː˦˩ məj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [təː˨˩ məj˧˧]

Noun

(classifier bức) tờ mây

  1. (obsolete) a kind of paper for writing letters, said to have cloud patterns as decoration
  2. (by extenstion, obsolete, probably literary when it was in use) a letter